Small, 30, will be confined to a secure psychiatric hospital and it will be up to the review board when he may leave, Grey County Crown attorney Michael Martin said in an interview Aug. 4 at the courthouse. Board members are psychiatrists and other specialists.

An agreed statement of facts of the case was filed as an exhibit.

The facts provide glimpses of Small's metal deterioration involving paranoid and delusional thinking. They conclude Small planned to kill Hopkins "because he had an ongoing delusional belief that she was a terrorist affiliated with ISIS and she was planning to harm Mr. Small and/or his family."

He was diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia by August 2009 and had many hospitalizations by October 2014. By January 2015 Small had no history of violence or a criminal record.

Hopkins, who lived in Hanover at one time, developed issues associated with substance abuse in her 20s. By 2015 she'd been drug and alcohol free for several years.

She was receiving support by the Assertive Community Treatment Team or ACTT, Hope Grey Bruce and other community organizations for housing and general support. She had no diagnosable condition except addiction issues and was about to be discharged from the program, the statement of facts said.

Hopkins met Small, another ACTT client, while they were tenants in the same building in January 2014. Their relationship started in August 2015 and they moved in together in a second-floor apartment at 892 2nd Ave. W., Unit 2, in Owen Sound.

By September 2014 Small was showing "increasing signs of paranoia" and on Oct. 14 a doctor at the hospital recorded Small was "experiencing breakthrough signs of schizophrenia focussing on paranoid delusions revolving around his personal safety." He was prescribed more anti-psychotic medication.

By November 2014 he wanted more locks on the doors and had covered their apartment windows with blankets. Both reported "relationship issues" and that they needed separate accommodations, the statement of facts said. Neither reported concerns about violence or aggression in the relationship.

Days before he killed her, Small called police on Jan. 13, 2015 around 7:30 a.m. claiming Hopkins was smoking meth which would harm their unborn child. He pointed to pieces of a broken light bulb which he said proved she was using meth. She was poisoning him and trying to harm herself with scissors, he told police.

Later Hopkins denied those things and told police Small had been "flushing his medication."

Police took him to hospital that day after he consented to an assessment but left before it was conducted. Also that day he told an ACTT registered practical nurse he was "working counter-terrorism" and was "planning to take someone down." He wouldn't say where he was.

He also said he needed to know if his girlfriend is pregnant, said she was smoking meth, and that was dangerous for the baby, and that she is working with the terrorists, the statement of agreed facts said.

The ACTT member said he passed this information on to police but an officer denied that, saying he was only told Small left the hospital without being seen by the crisis team and that Small was off his medication. The officer was asked to contact the ACTT member if the officer saw Small before 8 p.m.

Small put a new lock on the apartment door on Jan. 14, 2015, but Hopkins' support worker put the old one back at her request. The next day at a meeting Small missed, it was decided Small would move out at month's end.

He killed her in their apartment, likely on Jan. 16, 2015, based on phone and Internet records, shortly after he bought a black folding knife at Deals, hopped in a waiting cab and was dropped off near their apartment.

Hopkins had been texting an ex-boyfriend for permission to stay with him for a few days due to problems with Small when she wrote "Dave just came home." The ex-boyfriend replied "Keep me posted" and she texted "OK" at 2:08 p.m. That was the last anyone heard from her.

Police checked on Small at ACTT members' request January 18 but he said "who's that" and didn't answer the door. He was seen by a neighbour leaving later that day. A housing worker came January 20 to pick up Hopkins for a meeting but no one answered her door.

A neighbour below the apartment shared by Small and Hopkins heard "sounds of stomping and furniture being dragged around" Jan. 21 and early Jan. 22.

Small didn't attend a psychiatrist appointment on January 22. A support worker failed to reach Hopkins by phone or at the door that day and called her supervisor out of concern for her. ACTT members forced open the back door to the apartment off the fire escape after the keys wouldn't open at the front.

An upright sofa had been wedged against the door and windows were covered with black material. Hopkins was found lying on a mattress, her body covered in blankets tucked under her chin. Police surmised she'd been killed on a blood-soaked couch and moved to the mattress on the floor.

A knife like the one purchased at Deals was found at the scene and testing later found on it DNA consistent with Small's and Hopkins'.

After arresting and releasing Small on Jan. 22, 2015 while the investigation continued, Small was picked up on a Mental health Act Form 2 obtained by mental health staff at the hospital. He was detained at Owen Sound hospital for three weeks, then police charged him with murder upon his Feb. 13, 2015 release. He's been in custody since.